Riding the north wind,
 
an empty Amazon box
 
gallops past my door.

 
 
 

Into a white bowl
 
a waterfall of Wheaties
 
cascades from the box.

 
 
 

Unexpected rain—
 
the homeless man hunkers down
 
in his cardboard box.

 
 
 

in a cardboard box
 
filled with castoff Christmas things:
 
Mary with no arms

 
 
 

The homeless woman,
 
shifting in her cardboard box,
 
startles a field mouse.

Box

 
 
 

passing the long night
 
in a washing machine box—
 
the homeless woman

Treasures

 
 

autumn afternoon—
 
lifting my childhood treasures
 
from a dusty box

Flattened

 
 
 

autumn afternoon—
 
window box of marigolds
 
flattened by the frost

Castoff

 
 
 

in a cardboard box
 
filled with castoff Christmas things
 
a broken angel

River

 
 
 

into a blue bowl
 
a river of Cheerios
 
spilling from the box